2023 has not been great for drawing. In my real-life job, my shift changed to late nights. I have not been able to do the drawing I want. This past month rolled around, and it looked like I figured out a way to make time to draw. My parents came to visit, so I took some time off. However, the demands of maintaining a house overrode my need to draw. Then we all got Covid.

In the meantime, the staff at Webcomic Chat decided to close shop. I am the co-administrator of the Webcomic Chat community on Reddit. I decided to keep the subreddit open and mold it to what I would like. Then Reddit decided to hike their API prices for apps. Communities, in response to this news, stopped posting or chose their subreddits. This, of course, further stymies any traffic I was hoping to gain with my revisions. I don’t know what I should do with it.

I got comics, I haven’t posted any yet. I will get some posted online soon. There is an Artist Alley Fest in August I want to prep for. The site revisions are pretty much done. I am working hard to rebuild my Totally Naked Man wiki at https://rose-city.net. I got some scripts finished with the help of ChatGPT. I got some background art for Lil Bunny. I am ready to start pumping out content. I just need a little more time to reorganize my life, lol.

-Illya

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A.J. Roberts has been an awesome supporter of me and Naked Man Comics. Years ago, A.J. donated to my sister-in-law’s kidney fundraiser. For being a donor, I drew a hero character based on A.J. named “Call the Police from a Safe Distance Man.”

Recently he sent me a very kind postcard. As a thank you, I drew his hero persona with his son.

Call the Police from a Safe Distance Man and son of Call the Police from a Safe Distance Man
Call the Police from a Safe Distance Man and son of Call the Police from a Safe Distance Man,
by Illya King